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Grace Cavalieri presents poetry and featured poets

Grace Cavalieri has 18 books and chapbooks of poetry and 26 produced short-form and full-length plays. Her newest poetry publications in 2014 are "The Mandate of Heaven" (Bordighera Press) and "The Man Who Got Away" (New Academia/Scarith). Grace founded and still produces "The Poet and the Poem" on public radio, celebrating 37 years on-air in 2014. It is recorded at the Library of Congress and transmitted via Pacifica Network. She holds two Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards (1993 & 2013), A Paterson Poetry Prize, a Pen Fiction Award, the Bordighera Award for Poetry, The CPB Silver Metal and received the Associated Writers' Program George Garrett Award for 2013.

Before John Denver crashed his steel peg
into strands of sunshine,
and before Cass Elliott choked on a head of lettuce
her last Caribbean trip,
they sang Leaving on a Jet Plane.
She wrote it and I wondered
why it was so sad ...

Maritza Rivera wrote of my personal loss and of my heart: “MAY ALL THE PIECES FIND EACH OTHER.” This is a true poet –not merely a public poet— one who is always a poet, in daily practice, within arm’s reach. On the page, she creates her own history from our national/cultural histories. Her view is egalitarian, and she makes a sharp argument for human rights while creating unexpected pleasures through the excellence of her writing. – Grace Cavalieri

I wish I hadn't made fun of him that day at Union Station when he walked away from the tie rack with the same green and blue striped tie he had in his closet at home. Green and blue slanted stripes. "You have one" I laughed. ...

We are happy to present our September Poet, Beto Palaio, a writer and artist from Rio de Janeiro. His life is an explosion of color, beauty, creativity and enthusiasm, always good to share. - Grace Cavalieri

Dulce Maria Menendez is an accomplished painter and poet. Her poems are a force of writing. Her work defies all that is cynical in poetry by showing a passion larger than we are, as if she carves a figure of feeling out of the stone of language. She exceeds courage as we know it, to find the limits of truth - then she says it -clearly and beautifully. - Grace Cavalieri

Kenneth Carroll is a clarion voice that will outlast the birds in the trees. He's a mentor for every heart that cries out to be heard - to learn how to speak. He is funny and sad. He writes of the past with a style that can't be imitated and his stories are indelible. From our shattered lives, Carroll brings light to our task. From the collapse of dreams, he restores a wind of goodwill and courage. From all that is fatal in language, he infuses it with life everlasting. - Grace Cavalieri